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In September, 1891, he married Miss Anna Hurst, who was born in Upshur County in August, 1871, and was ducated in the public schools and the seminary. Her ather, the late Maj. John L. Hurst, was a Union soldier who for bravery on the field of battle was promoted to najor. He was several times wounded. After the war e served as county clerk. Major Hurst died during the nfluenza epidemic in 1917.

Mr. and Mrs. Post have lived in Buckhannon most of he years since their marriage. They have two sons. saac H., a graduate of Wesleyan College at Buckhannon, s a student of law at Harvard University. John H., who graduated from Wesleyan College, was a flying instructor t Mather Field in California during the war, and was ated as a very proficient flyer. He is an educated farmer, aving taken advanced courses in agriculture at Cornell University, and is a thirty-second degree Mason.

CORLEY RAYMOND INGRAM while a young man for his esponsibilities as county superintendent of schools of Tyler County, is exceptionally well qualified for leadership n educational affairs. He is himself a man of thorough ducation, high ideals, a splendid character, and has given , most energetic administration of school matters and in . way to set new standards of efficiency in the county.

Mr. Ingram was born at Alvy, Tyler County, May 3, .896. His father, Jarrett Trainor Ingram, a son of Nathan ingram, was born in Tyler County in 1851, and has spent ll his life in the county. He now lives at Pursley. For number of years his interests were those of a farmer, nt he early became identified with the development of the il resources in the Sistersville field, has been a contractor, und is still one of the heavy producers in that section. He s a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal

Church. Jarrett T. Ingram married Hannah Jane Mc- Intyre, who was born at Alvy, Tyler County, in 1874. Her father, James McIntyre, was also born at Alvy, in 1841, has been a merchant and an extensive farmer, and still owns the large farm on Pursley Creek where he resides. He is a democrat in politics. James McIntyre married Agnes Underwood, who was born in Tyler County in 1844. They had a family of six children: Ikey M., connected with the Goodrich Rubber Company at Akron, Ohio; Pearlie, wife of Emanuel Elder, a farmer at Marysville, Ohio; Laura, who died at the age of nineteen; Hannah Jane, Mrs. Ingram; Anna, wife of David L. Core, a school teacher at Pursley; and Benjamin Cleveland, an oil operator and producer at Sistersville.

The children of Jarrett T. Ingram and wife were: Laura Frances, wife of Lonis Averele Gorrell, owner of a public garage at Middlebourne; Miss Zelda May, at home; Corley R .; Frederick Gay, a graduate of the County High School and assisting his father in the oil business and on the farm; Paul McClairn, who attended the County High School two years and now works for his father; Norwood Trainor, a student in the County High School; and Ruth Underwood, attending the Middlebourne Grade School.

Corley Raymond Ingram first came in contact with the rural schools of Tyler County as a pupil. For two years he attended grade school at Sistersville, graduated in the regular course and the teachers training course from the Tyler County High School in 1917, and took two years of training in the West Liberty State Normal School in Ohio County. Mr. Ingram taught his first school at the age of twenty years, looking after the rural school of Coal Valley. In November, 1918, he was elected county superintendent, and began his term of four years July 1, 1919. Under his administrative supervision as county superintendent are 161 schools, with a corps of 161 teachers and a scholar- ship enrollment of 4,500. Mr. Ingram is also president of the Board of Directors of the Tyler County High School and is a member of the State Educational Association and the National Education Association. While in normal school at West Liberty he was a member of the Webster Literary Society and the Bryants Literary Society, and also secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Poor eyesight caused his rejection when he applied for service in the World war, but he did all he could as a speaker and participant in the various local drives. He is a republican, a member of the Church of Christ, and is owner of an attractive resi- dence in Middlebourne.

December 25, 1919, at Wheeling, Mr. Ingram married Miss Ada Lallathin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lalla- thin, who live in Monroe County, Ohio, where her father owns a large farm. Mr. and Mrs. Ingram have one daugh- ter, Mary Katheryn, born July 15, 1921.

ARTHUR K. PERRY, president of the Merchants and Miners Bank of Junior and for a number of years active in the civic and business affairs of that community, in the line of public service performed his best work as a specialist with both the State and Federal Departments of Agriculture as an inspector for the protection of forests and orchards.

Mr. Perry was born in Meade District of Upshur County, West Virginia, October 24, 1869. His grandfather, Elias Perry, came from Erie County, New York, and established his home on French Creek in Upshur County, where he spent the rest of his life as a farmer and where he was laid to rest in the community cemetery. His children were Hubbard, John, Edwin, Elias, Wilbur, Fannie, who mar- ried John Love, and Mrs. Marshall Gould.

Hubbard Perry, father of the banker, was a native of Upshur County, and was one of the early volunteers for the service of the Union in the Civil war. He was in Com- pany E, of the Fourth Regiment of Virginia Cavalry, and while in the service nearly all the war period and in many arduous campaigns he was never wounded or captured. He was a private soldier, and among other battles he was with Sheridan at Cedar Creek. After the war he returned to the farm and pursued the routine of country life until his death in 1877, at the age of forty-nine. When he went

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to the polls he cast his vote as a republican, and he was a worshipper in the Presbyterian Church. Hubbard Perry married Harriet Phillips, daughter of Edwin and Sophro- nia (Young) Phillips. The Youngs were an old Massa- chusetts family that settled in Lewis County, Virginia, in that portion now Upshur County. The ancestry of this branch of the family runs back to an Englishman who was a man of letters and "wrote for the King," probably meaning that he was secretary to King George the first. Among his children was Henry Young, who lived in Eng- land during the latter years of George the second, while Holland and England were at war with France. While in a boat along the coast he was seized and pressed into the English Navy, and for seven years performed his duties with the Royal Navy and finally landed at Martha's Vine- yard, Massachusetts. An educated man, a teacher, he pre- pared three times to return to England, but something prevented his going each time, so that providence seemed to have designed to make him an American. He married Lydia Ross. Their oldest son, Robert Young, was born at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and had two broth- ers, William and Freeman, and four sisters, Anna, Cynthia, Elizabeth and Margaret. Robert Young married Lydia Gould. Their children were Paschal, Ann, Anson, Gilbert, Festus, Loyal, Louisa, Sophronia and Freeman. The dangh- ter Sophronia was born November 17, 1812, and on April 22, 1830, was married to Edwin Phillips in Upshur County, where they lived out their lives. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Phillips were: Harriet, who became the wife of Hubbard Perry; Abizer; Josephine, who married Adolphus Brooks; Beecher, Marion, Aletha, Wallace, Linn, and May, who became the wife of William O. Phillips. The children of Hubbard Perry and wife are: Emma, wife of George Talbott and a resident of Elkins; Lucy, who married Jonathan Hathaway, of Buckhannon; Marion, who died in infancy; Orr, of Elkins; Edwin E., of Macedonia, Ohio; Delia, a resident of Pittsburg; Arthur Kirke, the banker; and Grace, who died as Mrs. John Finley.

Arthur K. Perry lived in the community where he was born until he was eighteen. He made good use of his advantages in the local schools at that time. After a course in the U. B. Academy at Buckhannon, where he took a business training, he engaged in a private business career until he attended lecture courses in the West Vir- ginia University at Morgantown for special work in agri- culture and horticulture. After finishing the course he was appointed state orchard inspector, and performed the duties of that position for one year in Berkeley County. For another year he did inspection work in the forests of the state against the chestnut-blight. He was then called to the Federal Department of Agriculture as an inspector specially detailed to look out for the white pine blister rust. He was in this work from 1916 to 1920, inclusive, and through the forest areas of West Virginia, New Jer- sey, North Carolina and New York. This is one of the most destructive pests ravaging the American forests, and the origin of the rust was placed to Germany, being im- ported to America on young trees. It affects the five- leafed species of pine.

Mr. Perry after leaving the service of the Federal Gov- ernment was with the Gage Coal & Coke Company at Junior until the mines of that company closed. He was made superintendent of the State Game Farm in 1922. This farm is in process of development at French Creek, and has been put aside as a preserve for the propagation of game birds, particularly the Chinese ring-neck pheasant. The farm comprises seventy-five acres, and is the property of the chief state game warden, Mr. Brooks, who has set it aside to the state for experimental purposes. Mr. Perry's duties there are in the summer season, He per- sonally owns a tract of land adjacent to the Game Farm, and this and other lands will eventually comprise a State Game Refuge under the care of the commonwealth, where no hunting or fishing will be permitted.

As a citizen Mr. Perry has served as recorder and also as mayor of Junior. He was one of the leaders in organ- izing a bank for the community, and in 1917 the Mer-

chants and Miners Bank was launched, with him as one of the first vice presidents and directors. Since January, 1922, he has been president of the bank. Mr. Perry is a Master Mason, a Presbyterian, and has been a steadfast republican, casting his first vote for Benjamin Harrison in 1892, and his voting in National elections has been regu- lar except in 1912, when he voted for Roosevelt.

At Junior, October 10, 1900, Mr. Perry married Miss Frances Row, daughter of Andrew J. Row, and grand- daughter of Benjamin Row. The other children of Ben- jamin Row were: Mary, wife of Emuel Viquesney; Julia, who married Andrew Williams; and Polly, who became the wife of Samuel Latham. Andrew J. Row was born in Page County, Virginia, but spent the greater part of his life in West Virginia, where he was a farmer, miller and merchant. He died in 1905, at the age of seventy-one. His first wife was Delilah Williams, and their children were Alva; Benjamin; Mary, who married Granville Brady; Virginia, who became Mrs. Columbus Thorn; Celia, who married Clarence Wilson; Rosa, who is Mrs. Washington Arbogast, of Junior; and Margaret, who died as the wife of Adam Thornhill. Mary K. Fitzgerald, second wife of Andrew J. Row, died in 1915, at the age of seventy-seven. Her children were Lillie Bell, wife of S. S. Bolton and now deceased; Frances Amanda, wife of A. K. Perry; and Icie, wife of Frank Shomo, of Junior. Mrs. Perry was born October 10, 1876.

SIMON PRINCE RICHMOND has followed the profession of shorthand reporter for over twenty years. In that field he has received real distinction by the skill, thoroughness and reliability of his work. His service has been by no means local. He has reported conventions and court pro- ceedings in many of the sections of his home state and in assemblies throughout the country.

Mr. Richmond was born 'on a farm in Summers County, West Virginia, January 20, 1870, son of Enos R. and Catharine (Walker) Richmond. His father is still living, and they descended from William Richmond, who came from England and settled in Norfolk, Virginia, but soon after the Revolutionary war, removed to New River Falls, in what is now Raleigh County, West Virginia.

Simon Prince Richmond had to work on his father's farm a few years before and even while he was in his first year in the common schools. He is one of the men who has gone beyond his early environment, has overcome adversity and difficulties in his path of achievement, and has made all his opportunities. He completed his early education by at- tending the Concord Normal School at Athens during 1889, and at the age of sixteen taught his first term of school in his native county. He continued teaching for fifteen years, and after a term of from three to five months each winter spent the rest of the year on the farm.

Mr. Richmond moved to Charleston in 1901, in which years he graduated in shorthand and typewriting at the Capital City Commercial College. He also studied law, beginning in 1907, was admitted to the bar in 1910, and for several years did office practice in the offices of Brown, Jackson & Knight at Charleston, one of the most prominent law firms of West Virginia, and the firm with which he began his career of stenographer soon after graduating from commercial school. In 1921 he withdrew from this firm and became associated with Charles V. Price and Ben D. Keller, a shorthand firm with offices in the Boyce Building. These three men are official reporters for the Circuit Court of Fayette and Nicholas counties, and also for the Circuit Court of Webster, Braxton and Gilmer counties, and they do the reporting for the Criminal Court of Raleigh County. The firm conducts a general shorthand reporting business, and handle a large volume of special work for conventions and associations.

This has been the particular field of Mr. Richmond for many years, and he is the official reporter for the State Pharmaceutical Association of West Virginia, for the State Bar Association and for a number of years has been the assistant secretary and official stenographer for the Farm- ers' National Congress. He reports all the annual proceed-

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ngs of this congress and prepares the reports for publica- ion. Mr. Richmond is a Knights Templar and Scottish lite Mason and a Shriner.

He married Miss Sarah Fink. They have four children : ustus O., T. Carter, Percy P. and Gladys.

WILLIAM EDMUND WATSON. The following brief sketch s published for its value as a personal record of one of West Virginia's leaders in the coal mining industry.

William Edmund Watson was born at Detroit, Michigan, Tay 19, 1885, but is a member of an old West Virginia fam- ly. His great-grandfather, James Dent Watson, came rom Maryland and was an early settler in Monongalia County. The Fairmont coal operator was named for his grandfather. His own parents were Lee P. and Lucy D. Lowe) Watson, the former a native of Monongalia County. Ie practiced law for a time in Detroit, and subsequently n Ashtabula, Ohio. He died in 1900, at Smithtown, Ionongalia County, West Virginia. His wife, who died fay 4, 1913, was born in Ohio County, Virginia, daughter f Jacob S. Lowe, who was born near Bethany in Brooke County, and after his education in Bethany College was minister of the Christian Church.

William E. Watson was educated at Fairmont, attended igh school at Ashtabula, Ohio, and for two years was in he University of West Virginia. He has been connected rith the coal industry since he was twenty-one. In 1909 he Rosebud Fuel Company was organized by him. In 913 he organized the Fairmont and Cleveland Coal Com- any of Fairmont, and has been its president. Mr. Watson 3 a Mason, an Elk and a member of the Fairmont Coun- ry Club.

STEPHEN G. JACKSON. In the midst of a busy career hose substantial achievements promised greater fulfill- ent Stephen G. Jackson died January 3, 1922. His asso- ates and friends knew and appreciated his keen, logical ind and sound judgment, enthusiasm for the law and a ady capacity for hard work, and recognized in him an ble member of the Clarksburg bar, who had built up in irteen years a professional reputation extending over arrison County. Thoroughly trained in the highest hools of his calling, he had justified his years of study y success in practice, and he commanded respect as an onorable lawyer of the bar and the public alike.

Stephen G. Jackson bore a name well known in American istory both in public and military life. The founder of e family in New England in Colonial days was Robert ackson, who was born in England, of Scotch-Irish an- stry, and took a prominent part in affairs relating to the rly settlements. Stephen G. Jackson was born at Jane- w, Lewis County, West Virginia, March 6, 1884, a son John G. and Martha J. (Bassel) Jackson, the former whom was born in Lewis County, March 7, 1857, a son : James William Jackson, of Harrison County, Virginia, id Sallie Ann Goodloe, of Albemarle, West Virginia, and grandson of Stephen Pomeroy Jackson, also born in arrison County, Virginia. The next direct ancestor, tephen Jackson, was born in New Jersey, a son of Edward ackson, also born in New Jersey, and a son of Joseph ackson, born on Long Island, a son of James Jackson, so born on Long Island, who was a son of John Jackson, : Long Island, son of Robert Jackson, the original set- er. Of these ancestors both Edward and Stephen Jack- n, father and son, served in the Revolutionary war, and tephen Jackson served also in the War of 1812. Both rved as Indian scouts and both were wounded at the ittle of Yorktown. They were pioneer settlers in what now West Virginia, and the late Stephen G. Jackson vned the land on which they settled immediately after the evolutionary war and bought in 1792.

Stephen Jackson, the military hero, married Elizabeth omeroy, a member of one of the old New England fam- es that has been notable in its contributions to American tizenship of the highest order, an example of the present wy being found in that distinguished statesman, Hon. lihu Root.

John G. Jackson, who is president of a bank at Jane-

lew, West Virginia, has been a merchant and banker for many years and prominent in political affairs in Lewis County. At one time he was the democratic nominee for the State Senate and for other important offices. On ac- count of his temperance principles and pioneer advocacy of prohibition at a time when such opinions were new and startling, he was forced into leadership of the prohibition party in his section, and at one time was the prohibition candidate for governor. He married Miss Martha J. Bas- sel, who was born in Harrison County, January 19, 1856, and died March 15, 1908, leaving two sons: James Henry and Stephen G. She was a daughter of Henry Bassel, a brother of the late John Bassel, a prominent lawyer in West Virginia.

Stephen G. Jackson, who was in the tenth generation from Robert Jackson, attended the local schools in his native place and prepared for the University of West Vir- ginia at Morgantown Academy. He entered the university in 1903, received his B. S. degree in 1907 and his LL. B. degree in 1908, and the same from Yale College in 1909. He immediately entered into practice at Clarksburg, in association with Edward G. Smith.

In 1907 Mr. Jackson married Miss Jessie Moorhead, who is a daughter of William and Alice (John) Moorhead, of Morgantown, West Virginia. Their one daughter, Alice, is yet in school. Mr. Jackson was a member of the Methodist Protestant Church and of the Masonic fraternity, and kept an active interest in Sigma Chi and Phi Alpha Delta college fraternities of Yale and the University of West Virginia. In politics he was active as a democrat, but to the law he gave the fullest efforts and enthusiasm of his all too brief life.

THE PHELPS CAN COMPANY is one of the several estab- lishments that have made an important industrial com- munity at Weirton in Hancock County, practically surrounding the historic old village of Holliday's Cove with factories, teeming population and all the institutions and improvements of twentieth century existence.

This plant was established at Weirton in the spring of 1911 by the president of the original company, W. J. Phelps of Baltimore. At that time the plant started with a capacity of 350,000 cans daily and about a hundred em- ployes. Subsequent additions and improvements have trebled the capacity, and employes now number abont 350, with a payroll of about $6,500 a week. The tinplate is obtained from the adjacent Weirton Steel Works, the an- nual consumption being between 600,000 and 700,000 boxes of tin plates. The plant at Weirton makes a specialty of tin containers for evaporated and condensed milk, the output being sold to condensaries all over the United States and Canada.

The company is capitalized at $50,000. The president and treasurer of the corpoartion at Baltimore is W. J. Phelps, the vice president and secretary is Forest Bramble, of the same city, while the executive in charge at Weirton is J. Howd Phelps, assistant treasurer and manager. This company maintains four plants, one at Baltimore, another at New Philadelphia, Ohio, the one at Weirton, and another established in 1921 at Clarksburg, West Virginia. Mr. J. Howd Phelps and Mr. J. B. Dresel, the superintendent, started the plant at Weirton and have been in active charge ever since. The plant has floor space of 110,000 square feet, about two and a half acres, and a double rail- road track runs the entire length of the factory.

The Phelps family have been pioneers in can manufac- ture. W. J. Phelps as a boy made cans by the hand process before the introduction of any of the complicated machinery now used in can making. He started his first can factory at Baltimore about 1890. The Phelps Can Company now stands third in the United States in relative size and importance, and is probably the first in a special- ized output for packers.

J. Howd Phelps was eighteen years of age when he en- tered the shops of the Baltimore plant, and has grown up in the business. He is a Mason, is affiliated with the Scottish Rite Consistory at Wheeling, is a member of the Weirton Masonic Club, and belongs to the Scottish Rite

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Orchestra at Wheeling and also a similar orchestra at Steubenville, Ohio. Mr. Phelps, whose home is at Holli- day's Cove, married Sarah Marie Turner, a native of New York State. Their four children are Dorothy, Howd, Jr., Marjorie and Virginia.

LEVI JEWELL is associated with his father, W. R. Jewell, in a very prosperous business as a breeder of Hereford cattle. The Jewell farm has some of the best stock of this kind in West Virginia, and the Jewells are recognized authorities on the Hereford strain and have made a dis- tinctive success of their business.

The Jewell Stock Farm is eight miles south of Weston in Lewis County. Levi Jewell was born on another farm, two and a half miles north of Weston, May 2, 1882, and all his life he has been interested in matters of good farm- ing and good livestock. He is a republican in politics, and is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Ancient Order of United Workmen.

On August 26, 1903, he married Bertha E. Smith, who was born on a farm in Lewis County, December 28, 1887, and supplemented her advantages in the common schools by attending Wesleyan College at Buckhannon. Her father was Wilson E. Smith. Levi Jewell and wife have nine children, named Ernestine, Walter, Howard, Paul, Robert, Clyde, Irene, Ralph and Ruth.

There are three partners in the Hereford cattle industry conducted by the Jewells, W. R. Jewell, and Levi and Al- bert Jewell. W. R. Jewell was born four miles north of Weston November 29, 1852, son of Albert and Catherine H. (Ramsey) Jewell. Albert Jewell was born in the State of Maine in 1816, and his wife was born in Virginia in 1814. Albert grew up on a farm, had a public school education, and when he removed to Virginia he taught school. He married in that state and then came to Lewis County, West Virginia, where he continued teaching and farming. In 1856 he moved to the vicinity of Roanoke, and two years later to the farm three and a half miles north of Weston, where he spent the rest of his life. His wife died in the village of Janelew. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was a republican. Albert Jewell and wife had five children, and the two now living are Flavilla C., wife of A. A. Maddox, and W. R. Jewell.

W. R. Jewell spent most of his early life on the farm in Lewis County, and had only nominal advantages in the common schools, but later made up the deficiencies by at- tending private school. In the fall of 1874 he became a teacher, and he was identified with the educational affairs of Lewis County for a number of years. In the spring of 1881 W. R. Jewell married Catherine Fisher, who was reared and educated in Lewis County. They have four children: Levi, mentioned above; Florence, wife of I. G. Horner; Albert, who married Arminta Clark; and Gay, wife of Z. P. Hammer.

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